I have no qualms about it. I know it, and everyone else around me knows it too. I am an angry person by nature. I am an Aries after all. And when I am angry, you dont wana be anywhere near me. When I was young, my dad always used to tell me that the one who gets angry, always ends up losing. And now, my boyfriend has taken over that role, and tells me the same things.

However, I disagree. Anger isnt always bad. Two months ago, I failed an exam for the first time in my life. At the time, it was the most horrible feeling I had ever felt. Medicine is what I am good at, it is a major part of what defines me. It is the only thing in my entire life that I have been good at, and you have no idea how devastating it was the day I found out I had failed. Initially, it was devastation. Then, it turned to sorrow, and a feeling of hopelessness….like I was no good. However, that soon evaporated, and was replaced by anger. How could I have let myself down so badly? I was angry at myself, the circumstances in which i failed, the patient for being that patient, my pen for falling to the floor during the exam and wasting time, everything that i could project my anger to.

And guess what? Angers pays. Big time! I did the exam again this week. And I passed. I passed!!  I have never been happier to pass an exam as I was that day! Not just that. One of the registrars now wants to meet with me to discuss a future specialisation in medicine!! But man! I am happy today!! Just happy. Coz I know I am right when I tell my boyfriend and my dad that anger is not bad. Not bad at all!